Foreground
p.56 BUILD A COMPUTER CONTROLLED SECURITY SYSTEM FOR YOUR HOME
[author Steve Ciarcia]
Protecting your home with your personal computer-Part 1 of a 3 part series
p.84 A COMPUTERIZED MAILING LIST
[author Thomas E Doyle]
A practical application for your floppy disk computer system
p.90 LIFE ALGORITHMS
[author Mark D Nierniec ]
Efficient methods for programming John Conway's game of Life
p.104 POLYPHONY MADE EASY
[author Steven K Roberts]
Play chords instead of just single notes with your computer
p.186 AN AUDIBLE LOGIC TEST PROBE
[author James L Woodward]
Change voltage levels to musical tones for quick troubleshooting
p.190 HISTORY OF COMPUTERS: The IBM 704
[author Keith S Reid-Green]
Concerning one of the last vacuum tube computers
Background
p.14 A MICROPROCESSOR FOR THE REVOLUTION: THE 6809
[author Terry Ritter and Joel Boney]
The successor to the 6800 described by its designers in the first of a 3 part series
p.74 AN EXPOSURE TO MUMPS
[author David D Sherertz]
First designed for medical applications, this high levet language is diversifying
p.100 THE DIGICAST SYSTEM: Receiving Data and Information Over Your FM Radio
[author A I Halsema]
Receiving computer programs over FM subcarrier bands
p.110 GRANDMASTER WALTER BROWNE VERSUS CHESS 4.6
[author John R Douglas]
The continuing saga of Chess 4.6, this time in a simultaneous exhibition by a Grandmaster
p.116 AN INTRODUCTION TO BNF
[author W D Maurer]
Introduction to Backus-Naur Form, an abbreviation method used in compiler and interpreter design
p.126 CREATING A CHESS PLAYER, Part 4: Strategy in Computer Chess
[author Peter W Frey and Larry R Atkin]
Optimizing end game evaluation on the computer
p.146 IPS, AN UNORTHODOX HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE
[author Dr Karl Meinzer]
A machine independent high level language interpreter
p.174 GOTOlocks AND THE THREE SORTS
[author Gwen Hadley]
A tale told by a PUNdit of a sort
p.182 ELEMENTS OF STATISTICAL COMPUTATION
[author Alan B Forsythe]
How to calculate means and standard deviations
Nucleus
p.4 In This BYTE
p.6 A Short Note on Pascal Progress and Other Topics
p.10 Letters
p.49 Book Reviews
p.52 Machine Language Puzzler: Memory Meanderings
p.53 BYTE's Bugs
p.54 Technical Forum: Comments on S-100 Bus Extension
p.160 Clubs and Newsletters
p.162 BYTE's Bits
p.170 Desk Top Wonder: Some Random Games
p.176 Nybbles: A Micro Word Processor
p.179 Programming Quickies: Single Stepping the 8080 Processor
p.188 Event Queue
p.193 What's New?
p.222 Unclassitied Ads
p.224 BOMB, Reader Service
Cover Art: SCULPTING THE NEW TITANS
[author Robert Tinney]

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